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title: Then the two, setting their spears in rest, charged at each other, a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the two, setting their spears in rest, charged at each other, and this so fiercely that their spears were broken in pieces and their horses borne to the ground. Who acts: two. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Err
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 79

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Then the two, setting their spears in rest, charged at each other, and this so fiercely that their spears were broken in pieces and their horses borne to the ground.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** set, charge, break, bear · **To what, where:** spears, rest, each, this, pieces

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:42:79
# text = Then the two, setting their spears in rest, charged at each other, and this so fiercely that their spears were broken in pieces and their horses borne to the ground.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obl	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | gerund | the two | men's spears |  | rest | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme in rest=Destination |
| 2 | **charge** | participle | the two *not said here* |  |  | each |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory |
| 3 | **break** | past · passive |  | this |  | pieces and spears's horses |  | spears's spears *nsubj:pass*; fiercely *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  | pieces and spears's horses *not said here* |  |  |  | to the ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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